Romeo and Juliet is the most famous English love story. This play has the basic meaning of "true love." What is true love ? True love is meeting that one special person and spending the rest of your life with. And that's exactly what Romeo and Juilet tried doing. Romeo and Juliet tried to keep their love life seperate from their family life. Unfortuantly their families were enemies, so this was hard to do. Romeo was later banished for killing a Capulet, and Juliet was forced to marry Paris. From this point, the two foe's plan was leading to failiure. Romeo and Juliet were madly inlove with eachother, but misunderstood eachother and one after the other died fatefully in eachother's hands. There is a major universal theme in this play, this theme is "LOVE."
This play focus's on romantic love. At the first sight where Romeo and Juliet met there was a connection between them. Shakespeare uses various ways to display the theme love. As what Spark Notes says "In Romeo and Juliet love is a violent, estatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves." The powerful nature love is also Universal, meaning it is spread throughout the whole entire world. Love is first explained in religion when Romeo and Juliet first meet, in line fourteen. Love is then told in a sort of magic. "Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks” (II.Prologue.6)
Love is to hard to explain in words, its overpowering. Before Romeo met Juliet he was so confused with emotions for Rosaline. “O brawling love, O loving hate” A1 S1 L175
“O heavy lightness, serious vanity” A1 S1 L177
“She is fair, too wise; wisely too fair”
This play was written hundereds of years ago, and still this play is a major hit.This play as I said before is a "famous love story."
And will be played and talked about for many years to come. Since this play was written many years ago, the english is very formal from how we speak today. Poets back then would write love poems, with the words Romeo used to talk about Rosaline. Romeo also compares his love to Rosaline by imagery. “Being black…blind…forgot…The precious treasure of his eyesight lost” A1 S1 L230-234
Many of times Romeo used night time to compare his love towards Rosaline. Night time thoughts were negative in a way; blindness, and darkness were some ways Romeo described Rosaline because he really didn't know her. This quote also expresses the way Romeo feels about love, and how painful it is. “It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun. Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon. Who is already sick and pale with grief.” A2 S2 L3
Later on in this play, Romeo still compares love in dark/light imagery when Romeo met Juliet. And how Romeo expresses to himself that Juliet is the opposite of Rosaline and how Romeo asked Juliet to kill is love for Rosaline.
Love is a strange thing, it can be the most amazing feeling in the world or it can really hurt but in the end love is something most of us will face, and yes there are many ways to describe love. This being that love is universal and can be expressed in many ways, and however you express love is the way you feel what love really means. Even though Romeo had a difficult time exploring the various ways of love he found true-love. And I'm sure everyone in the world will do the same as Romeo, but hopefully wouldn'g get killed over that fact.
Romeo and Juliet is the most famous English love story. This play has the basic meaning of "true love." What is true love ? True love is meeting that one special person and spending the rest of your life with. And that's exactly what Romeo and Juilet tried doing. Romeo and Juliet tried to keep their love life seperate from their family life. Unfortuantly their families were enemies, so this was hard to do. Romeo was later banished for killing a Capulet, and Juliet was forced to marry Paris. From this point, the two foe's plan was leading to failiure. Romeo and Juliet were madly inlove with eachother, but misunderstood eachother and one after the other died fatefully in eachother's hands. There is a major universal theme in this play, this theme is "LOVE."
This play focus's on romantic love. At the first sight where Romeo and Juliet met there was a connection between them. Shakespeare uses various ways to display the theme love. As what Spark Notes says "In Romeo and Juliet love is a violent, estatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves." The powerful nature love is also Universal, meaning it is spread throughout the whole entire world. Love is first explained in religion when Romeo and Juliet first meet, in line fourteen. Love is then told in a sort of magic. "Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks” (II.Prologue.6)
Love is to hard to explain in words, its overpowering. Before Romeo met Juliet he was so confused with emotions for Rosaline.
“O brawling love, O loving hate” A1 S1 L175
“O heavy lightness, serious vanity” A1 S1 L177
“She is fair, too wise; wisely too fair”
This play was written hundereds of years ago, and still this play is a major hit.This play as I said before is a "famous love story."
And will be played and talked about for many years to come. Since this play was written many years ago, the english is very formal from how we speak today. Poets back then would write love poems, with the words Romeo used to talk about Rosaline. Romeo also compares his love to Rosaline by imagery. “Being black…blind…forgot…The precious treasure of his eyesight lost” A1 S1 L230-234
Many of times Romeo used night time to compare his love towards Rosaline. Night time thoughts were negative in a way; blindness, and darkness were some ways Romeo described Rosaline because he really didn't know her. This quote also expresses the way Romeo feels about love, and how painful it is.
“It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun. Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon. Who is already sick and pale with grief.” A2 S2 L3
Later on in this play, Romeo still compares love in dark/light imagery when Romeo met Juliet. And how Romeo expresses to himself that Juliet is the opposite of Rosaline and how Romeo asked Juliet to kill is love for Rosaline.
Love is a strange thing, it can be the most amazing feeling in the world or it can really hurt but in the end love is something most of us will face, and yes there are many ways to describe love. This being that love is universal and can be expressed in many ways, and however you express love is the way you feel what love really means. Even though Romeo had a difficult time exploring the various ways of love he found true-love. And I'm sure everyone in the world will do the same as Romeo, but hopefully wouldn'g get killed over that fact.
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